Editing Colin Croft (section)

==County career==
[[Lance Gibbs]] arranged for Croft to go to [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] on a coaching scholarship in 1972 where he played two games in the second eleven.<ref>{{Cite book|last=BABB, COLIN.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1126669992|title=1973 AND ME : the england v west indies test series and a memorable childhood year.|date=2020|publisher=HANSIB|isbn=978-1-912662-12-8|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1126669992}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> With Warwickshire already having a quartet of West Indies Test players, no opportunity presented itself at the Midlands county, but Croft did play for [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]] in 1977, 1978 and 1982 taking 136 wickets at 26.5 in first class matches.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=The Home of CricketArchive|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1520/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2020-05-29}}</ref>